Author: Andrew Lam, Stories From the Edge of the Sea

Wednesday, 6/11/2025
6:00 - 7:30
Koret Auditorium
Koret Lobby
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

Award-winning local journalist and author Andrew Lam presents from his recently published collection of short fiction Stories from the Edge of the Sea.  Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, these fourteen stories explore themes of love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks revealed through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California.

A book sale and signing follow the presentation and Q&A session.

Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005) winner of the PEN Open Book Award, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres (2010) and Birds of Paradise Lost (2013).  Lam was a regular commentator on NPR's (National Public Radio) All Things Considered for many years, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home and editor and co-founder of the now defunct New America Media, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America.

This program is co-sponsored by the Information Services Department, the Magazines & Newspapers Center, the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, the International Center and the General Collections & Humanities Center of the San Francisco Public Library in association with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) and the Southeast Asian Community Center (SEACC). 

Connect: Andrew Lam - Facebook | Andrew Lam - Instagram 

 

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